This must go down as history in the making: A High Court (HC) judge has sentenced the Chief Justice of India & seven other Supreme Court judges to 5-years imprisonment and has also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on them.

Calcutta
High
Court's
Justice CS Karnan, on
Monday,
"sentenced" the CJI & 7 other SC judges to five-years
imprisonment after finding them guilty under the Scheduled Castes &
Scheduled Tribes Atrocities Act. As per the order, the fine has to be
paid to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, within one week
of the passing of the order.

In
Focus

The SC judges are hearing a
contempt petition against Justice Karnan after he had levelled
allegations of corruption against the Madras High
Court
Chief
Justice
and other judges and refused to appear before the SC despite
summons.

But Justice Karnan's order might not turn
effective as the SC had earlier
stripped him off his judicial and administrative powers.

Along with
the imprisonment and fine, Justice Karnan has barred the concerned SC
judges from holding office and from handling any case on the file of
the Supreme Court.

Earlier, Justice Karnan had directed
the seven SC judges to pay him a compensation of Rs 14 crore,
surrender their passports and had also
directed
the
immigration
authorities against issuing visas to the judges.

The SC
had recently ordered that a medical test be
conducted on
Justice Karnan to ascertain his mental stability, however, he had
refused
to undergo the test terming it as a 'mad
order by mad judges' only
meant to spoil his image in society.